Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Being in love is an exhausting business.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.